synthetic biology

“I think one of the big things in synthetic biology has really been, you try 10,000 things to get one thing to work.”

“But with advances in synthetic biology, advances in our ability to use things like gene and cell engineering, we're increasingly finding ways to make those same cells and genes and microbes, not the target of medicines, but the medicines themselves.”

“I think one of the big things in synthetic biology has really been, you try 10,000 things to get one thing to work.”

“A major challenge in engineering biology, and more broadly, specifically synthetic biology, is that we don't really know the design principles.”

“I think climate is really just beginning to excite the community and broadly environmental issues on two counts. One is in what way could we use algae and other organisms to pull more carbon out of the atmosphere? Can we help reverse the trend on using biology…”

“I think in many ways this century is going to be the century of biology, and really to put point on it, I think it's going to be the century of synthetic biology”

“My read on is it's gone past peak hype and is sort of in the, now getting into production, getting to useful.”

“Synthetic biology has been hampered by basically too much hype from its very beginning.”

“I think the marriage of direct evolution with synthetic biology really is also the future, coupled to machine learning.”

“And so, the trajectory of synthetic biology is, decades from now, we will be able to design entire genomes from the ground up. We will have complete control over the flow of information, matter, and energy inside living systems.”